Quitting Facebook makes you happy, YouTube launches YouTube Music, Firefox lands on iOS devices, Beats Music is getting killed off, and the alarm clock that slaps you awake each morning.

Quit Facebook to Make Yourself Happy

Are you feeling miserable? Stressed out? Angry at your friends and family? Then you need to Quit Facebook! At least according to the results of a study conducted by the Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark. Yes, it’s a real place. As is the Happiness Research Institute.

Quitting Facebook increased happiness and decreased worrying. In total, 88 percent of those who quit Facebook reported feeling happy as opposed to 81 percent of those who carried on using it. And 41 percent of those who quit Facebook reported feeling worried as opposed to 54 percent of those who carried on using it.

YouTube Launches YouTube Music App

YouTube has launched YouTube Music, which it describes as “YouTube built just for music”. YouTube Music comes in the form of a smartphone app, and offers a slightly different experience than Google Play Music. Although the same songs are present on both, YouTube Music focuses on the videos, and adds a bunch of live performances (and more) into the mix.

YouTube Music is available both on Android and on iOS, but only in the United States for the time being. Sorry, everybody else, but YouTube obviously hates you, at least for now.

Apple Fanboys Can Now Use Firefox

Mozilla has brought Firefox to iOS, finally launching a mobile version of its ever-popular Web browser for Apple’s operating system. This means iOS users have a new alternative to explore, as Firefox goes up against Safari, Chrome, Opera, and others. However, being so late to the party means Firefox might struggle to steal market share from its rivals.

People are increasingly browsing the Web using their smartphones, which means it’s essential for the likes of Google and Mozilla to produce mobile versions of their products. Just as with Chrome, creating a Firefox account means you can sync the browser — including tabs, passwords, and history — across all of your devices.

Mozilla announced Firefox for iOS with the punctuation-light promise that “Firefox for iOS lets you take your favorite browser with you wherever you go with the Firefox features you already love including smart and flexible search, intuitive tab management, syncing with Firefox Accounts and Private Browsing.”

Personally, I prefer to be roused from the land of nod gently rather than with force bordering on out-and-out violence, but each to their own. As can be seen in the video, this definitely isn’t suitable for anyone with long hair. Because I hear being scalped isn’t much fun. [H/T Boing Boing]

Your Views on Today’s Tech News

Did quitting Facebook have a positive effect on you? Will you be trying out YouTube Music? Are you likely to use Firefox on your iDevices? Are you a Beats Music user holding out from switching to Apple Music? How do you wake yourself up each morning?

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I'm not a huge fan of the Mozilla foundation at the moment and I'm sure as hell not driving all the way to my office just to sully my hands with an iThing just to see, but Apple's longstanding position was that all iOS browsers had to have the same rendering framework as Safari.

Using Webkit is more evidence of Mozilla's ongoing mismanagement and might also suggest an unwelcome future direction for its browser development.